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Mobile Phone Ringtones For Call Out Notification

by Robert Stewart

Jan 31, 2009

Even though all of us aussie fire fighters carry pagers around for fire call notification how many have their own personalised mobile phone profile or allocated ringtone for fire ban days if you are out of the house or in town doing shopping

I find that having an allocated ringtone or set phone profile allows me to be alerted to phone calls by friends,family members for heads up about fire calls about to happen rather than have my everyday ordinary ringtone to do this job

What ringtone does everyone have specially allocated for fire calls on their mobile as i've got Boys From The Bush
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    Tony P

    Your GRN system is the same sort of thing that we've moved away from. The new system has more flexibility, but nothing is perfect...

    It'd be a laugh here if a person received a TFB advice quicker than it's paged out to us. Considering that it's our Chief Fire Officer who declares them! Not to say it couldn't happen, some of our messages seem slow coming out.

    For a 'heads up' I, like many of my mates, keep the scanner running all day. It's been handy at times, hear that an incident that's fairly close has turned pear-shaped - get ready in case I'm paged. During nasty fire weather I usually carry a scanner in my car as well.

    Mar 9, 2009

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    Matt (aka Hawk)

    I am with the CFA so have the pager covering everything, bit I do have a profile on my phone so if anypone from the station etc calls me it plays the theme from backdraft or if I get an SMS it plays sirens going off.

    Jan 6, 2010

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    Tony P

    An upgrade from me! A year down the track...

    As some new members came online (have to be Widfire qualified or they can't get on a truck, so no need for a pager!) it's turned out that extra pagers are pretty well a non-event. Bloody shortage of money means out-of-pagers. Would have been far better to give EVERYBODY pagers instead of highring that great big jet airliner/water bomber thing last season!) So we have some of our members relying on their mobile phone for pager messages. The Brigade is only allowed seven of these, so that is about used up too now. The mobiles receive some of the normal pager message it seems. Enough to get the people down to the staion with some idea of what's going on!

    Steve? The coverage with our new pagers is state-wide. Except for the odd hole of course... The old ones were fairy local.

    May 20, 2010